Ruskin Extolled the Vale of Llangollen, "Entirely Lovely in Its Gentle
Wildness"
Summer visitors on a horse-drawn pleasure boat halt for a "spot of tea" at this stone Welsh inn along a branch of the
Shropshire
Union
Canal.
Ataweir
just
above
the inn the clear waters of the "sacred Dee," as Tennyson called it, feed the old waterway, which now has
scenic
rather
than
commercial
value.